Several Ontario municipalities say their paramedic services are under immense pressure, with worrying stretches of times during which no ambulances are available to respond to calls—but the province doesn’t track the problem. The government does have data on the hours paramedics spend waiting in emergency rooms to transfer patients to the care of a hospital,…

Two people have been taken to hospital in serious but stable condition after a blast destroyed multiple homes in an east Ottawa suburb. Reid Purdy of the Ottawa Paramedic Service says the two had to be extricated after the explosion in Orleans, while three other people were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Another five people were…

Ontario is expanding a free tuition program to more health-care professions in order to entice future graduates to stay in the province and provide care to underserved communities in return. The province’s Learn and Stay grant, announced last March, will now also cover tuition and other costs for paramedic and medical laboratory technologist programs, said…

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been questioned over his role in the state’s health crisis that led to the death of a 14-year-old girl waiting for an ambulance as well as 15 other Victorians’ deaths in the recent months. 14-year-old Lydia Anseline died on April 13 from an asthma attack after waiting for over 30…

A Victorian patient who went into cardiac arrest has died after waiting nearly 40 minutes for specialist paramedics. This comes amid a report by The Herald Sun that found up to a third of Melbourne’s population was without specialist MICA (Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance) paramedics on Dec. 17 due to a shortage of ambulance staff….

An Australian paramedic who launched a legal challenge to be exempted from receiving COVID-19 vaccines has had his case dismissed by a Supreme Court justice. John Larter, a veteran New South Wales (NSW) paramedic and deputy mayor of the Snowy Valleys Council, filed a lawsuit against the NSW State Health Minister Brad Hazzard challenging a public health order mandating…